Our impact - communities are environmentally sustainable
We want to support communities across the UK to take action for a more sustainable planet. We're facing a climate emergency causing environmental issues that affect our health, wellbeing and quality of life.
Learn more about our communities are environmentally sustainable mission.
The impact in numbers
From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, we supported communities to be environmentally sustainable by allocating £69.2 million in funding.
Grants that focused on this mission and ended in 2024 and 2025 supported over 500,000 people across the UK.
14% of grants supported communities to be environmentally sustainable.
What grants achieved
Our grants supported this mission by helping:
more people access nature (14%)
people improve their community’s impact on the environment (8%)
community organisations to improve their impact on the environment (5%)
A project we funded - Incredible Edible Lambeth
Incredible Edible Lambeth is a network of food growers improving access to nature in the community. We funded the group to work with organisations to run events in community gardens across Lambeth.
“On a lot of these estates, there is very poor access to nature, so these events gave residents the opportunity to interact with green space, other people, food and activities. It was very joyful.”
Victoria Sherwin, founding member of Incredible Edible Lambeth
Read more about how Victoria got involved with Incredible Edible Lambeth.